Mimi, Django, Kaat, Lotje, Patrick, Oom Boudewijn, & Butler Ed

September 6, 2015 2:56 PM

Poesjes is a new live action series about a family of cats who live in a cat-sized house and have a turtle butler. It's in Dutch but speaks the international language of cat.

The first 12 minute episode autoplays at the above link.

posted by item (23 comments total)

It will not meow for me. :(
posted by antiquated at 3:03 PM on September 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

The play button doesn't work for me either.
posted by lunch at 3:06 PM on September 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

Works fine for me. I'm in the US and using Firefox.
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 3:07 PM on September 6, 2015

I had to switch to chrome and turn off all blockers and agree to a cookie, I think...

Someone call Netflix and tell them to buy this show and keep making episodes forever and they'll never have to do anything else ever.
posted by Huck500 at 3:08 PM on September 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

This works for me except in that I now need to learn Dutch immediately.
posted by pemberkins at 3:09 PM on September 6, 2015 [6 favorites]

It's so weird, as someone who speaks both English and Japanese, to come across a Cat Thing on the internet made in a language I can't understand.

Checkin' my privilege, yo
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:47 PM on September 6, 2015 [4 favorites]

How does a cat become an alcoholic anyway? This needs a prequel for Oom Boudewijn. Just "De Boudewijn", maybe?
posted by howfar at 3:51 PM on September 6, 2015

Not being Dutch I was pretty much using Archer and Woodhouse to represent Boudewijn and Butler Ed.

It's funny imagining the turtle as being addicted to smack.
posted by vuron at 3:57 PM on September 6, 2015

Lars the fish is the best, so lively.
posted by Pendragon at 4:15 PM on September 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

Fun fact: this appears to be a new show based on cats, called Poesjes (pussys). I just found a previous show, with the same title, and subtitles. Not the same thing, in case you stumble across it in your search for "poesjes subtitles."

To entice you to watch this other show about cats (if such enticing was necessary), here's a clip of the translated script.

SCENE: kittens in a wheelbarrow in a field, with a horse in the background.

"The kittens got scolded again. They had been far too demanding, as usual."

posted by filthy light thief at 4:24 PM on September 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

"I don't have patience! I'm out!" (and the kitten hops out of the wheelbarrow) ~~ I'll stop now.
posted by filthy light thief at 4:27 PM on September 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

I am pretty sure that watching this infected me with toxoplasmosis.
posted by ardgedee at 4:48 PM on September 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

Just let the cat have his bloody mary fer cryin out loud.
posted by vrakatar at 5:52 PM on September 6, 2015

vPro uses a whole bunch of RequireJS stuff, you pretty much have to run it wide open as far as I can tell.
posted by rhizome at 5:59 PM on September 6, 2015

Crazy Pepe, always giving the Sheriff headaches!
posted by rhizome at 6:09 PM on September 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

youtube-dl appears to be familiar with vPro and is successfully downloading the video, in case you have that handy.
posted by XMLicious at 6:25 PM on September 6, 2015

Poesjes is the perfect series for my cat-loving, Dutch boyfriend. He says that Oom Boudewijn (the cat that keeps ordering stuff from the turtle butler) is the kittens' uncle (oom means uncle). Their father, Lucas, works abroad as a mouser.

The other Poesjes show that filthy light thief linked to is also amazing. A quote from episode 3:

Narrator: "Taking a dump is always a pleasant chore. Theo [the kitten] never needed to be taught how to do it. He already knew how to, a true talent you could say.

Alright, maybe mother demonstrated it once."

posted by tickingclock at 7:00 PM on September 6, 2015

Somedays I hope that long after civilization has gone to dust intelligent life will discover only our live action animal based children shows. Whatever type of society they backwards engineer from that small sliver of humanity will be amazing.
posted by lepus at 9:08 PM on September 6, 2015 [3 favorites]

I can also see it, I'm in the UK and on Firefox.
posted by Ms. Moonlight at 11:10 PM on September 6, 2015

As a Dutch learner, this clearly falls into the category of "homework" and it's my duty to watch it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
posted by sldownard at 11:37 PM on September 6, 2015 [7 favorites]

I used to have a tuxedo cat called Django. He was super dumb, but super cute and a good guy.

Then he got hit by a car and died, and I cannot bear to look at this video.
posted by Pazzovizza at 2:03 AM on September 7, 2015

sldownard: it's a fine story and I'd definitely buy that for a €.
posted by Too-Ticky at 5:27 AM on September 7, 2015

Dankjewel.
posted by humboldt32 at 8:59 AM on September 7, 2015